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1. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
Stars: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker
Votes: 39,567
2. Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
75 min | Drama, History
This series dramatizes the lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.
Stars: Siân Phillips, Patricia Quinn, Angela Down, Georgia Brown
Votes: 135
3. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 395
4. Colditz (1972–1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Colditz Castle and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors.
Stars: David McCallum, Richard Heffer, Paul Chapman, Jack Hedley
Votes: 1,025
5. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
6. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.
Stars: Brenda Bruce, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards
Votes: 53
7. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 139
8. The Girls of Slender Means (1975)
50 min | Drama
When their friend Nicholas is killed in 1960, several women think back to the time when they knew him, in 1945 "when all the best people were poor".
Stars: Miriam Margolyes, Patricia Hodge, Marion Bailey, Mary Tamm
Votes: 26
9. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
75 min | Drama
Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John ... See full summary »
Stars: Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones
Votes: 132
10. Anna Karenina (1977)
500 min | Drama, History, Romance
Anna Karenina is the young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires, Anna complicates her life.
Stars: Nicola Pagett, Stuart Wilson, Eric Porter, Robert Swann
Votes: 291
11. Emma (1972)
240 min | Comedy, Romance
While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
Stars: Doran Godwin, John Carson, Donald Eccles, Constance Chapman
Votes: 617
12. The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)
Comedy
The Morecambe & Wise Show was a long running and massively popular sketch series starring British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, plus a string of top-name international celebrity guests (of a bygone age), like André Prévin.
Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Ann Hamilton, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Votes: 1,057
13. The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981)
30 min | Comedy
Comedy skits featuring the talents of Mr Dick Emery.
Stars: Dick Emery, Pat Coombs, Victor Maddern, Helen Fraser
Votes: 213
14. The Shadow of the Tower (1972)
Biography, Drama, History
A series recording the key events in the reign of Henry Tudor and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty
Stars: James Maxwell, Bruce Hodgkins, Norma West, Hugh Sullivan
Votes: 230
15. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1973 TV Movie)
G | 74 min | Fantasy, Family
Join Alice on her journey through the mirror in BBC's fanciful adaptation of Lewis Caroll's classic novel. In an alternate world, just on the other side of the mirror's reflection, Alice ... See full summary »
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Sarah Sutton, Brenda Bruce, Richard Pearson, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 97
16. Supernatural (1977)
50 min | Horror
Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.
Stars: Andre Van Gyseghem, Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry, Charles Kay
Votes: 169
17. The Legend of King Arthur (1979)
110 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The classic story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
Stars: Felicity Dean, David Robb, Maureen O'Brien, Andrew Burt
Votes: 50
18. The Expert (1968–1976)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Professor John Hardy is a forensic scientist who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.
Stars: Marius Goring, Ann Morrish, Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth
Votes: 42
19. Telford's Change (1979)
50 min | Drama
Telford had worked for many years in a bank, and had progressed to a senior role which involved him travelling overseas. He decided that he wanted a change, so he applied for the job of ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Barkworth, Hannah Gordon, Albert Welling, Veronica Sowerby
Votes: 70
20. Dial M for Murder (1974)
50 min | Thriller
Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.
Stars: Jay Neill, Robert Lister, Gemma Jones, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 13
21. Madame Bovary (1975)
TV-14 | 220 min | Drama
Emma Bovary is the dreamy, frustrated, unfaithful wife of a French country doctor in this National Emmy-nominated adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece.
Stars: Francesca Annis, Tom Conti, Ray Smith, Brian Stirner
Votes: 119
22. The Glittering Prizes (1976)
471 min | Drama
Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.
Stars: Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman, Mark Wing-Davey, Clive Merrison
Votes: 171
23. A Christmas Carol (1977 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, Fantasy
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but then gets a visit from his companion Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. He urges Scrooge to change his life.
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn
Votes: 604
24. Henry IV Part I (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son, (nicknamed "Hotspur"). Henry's son, Hal, the ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Robert Brown
Votes: 225
25. Henry V (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 170 min | Biography, Drama, War
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: David Giles | Stars: John Abineri, Robert Ashby, Trevor Baxter, Rod Beacham
Votes: 160
26. Pollyanna (1973– )
155 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Elizabeth Archard plays the overly optimistic orphan, Pollyanna, in this timeless heart-warming BBC mini-series based on the best-selling novel and classic child literature by Eleanor ... See full summary »
Stars: Elizabeth Archard, Elaine Stritch, Paddy Frost, Ray McAnally
Votes: 84
27. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a deformed hunchback's love for a Gypsy girl in Paris.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Warren Clarke, Michelle Newell, Christopher Gable
Votes: 61
28. Private Lives (1976 TV Movie)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Amanda and Elyot used to be tempestuously married to each other. Now, each has remarried - and they find themselves in adjoining suites at the same hotel.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Alec McCowen, Penelope Keith, Polly Adams, Donald Pickering
Votes: 78
29. Melissa (1974– )
180 min | Mystery, Drama
A writer finds himself the prime suspect in his wife's murder.
Stars: Peter Barkworth, Ronald Fraser, Joan Benham, Philip Voss
Votes: 76
30. The Love School (1975– )
Drama
1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe, reflected in London by a group of young painters.
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Patricia Quinn, Peter Egan, David Burke
Votes: 17
31. The Philanthropist (1975 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A philologist at a British university finds his small world coming apart just as catastrophic things seem to be happening in the big world outside.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Ronald Pickup, Helen Mirren, James Bolam, Charles Gray
Votes: 62
32. Menace (1970–1973)
75 min | Thriller
This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Stars: David Wood, John Wentworth, Sheila Hancock, Anne Kristen
Votes: 23
33. Centre Play (1973–1977)
Drama
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Stars: John Barrett, Will Knightley, David Daker, Michael Gough
Votes: 15
34. Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Drama
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Colin Blakely, Coral Browne
Votes: 7
35. Henry IV Part II (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed "Hotspur"). Henry's son Hal, the Prince ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Martin Neil
Votes: 156
36. The Emigrants (1976)
75 min | Drama
The story of an English family emigrating to Australia.
Stars: Penne Hackforth-Jones, Brian Deacon, Joe Ritchie, Michael Craig
37. The Song of Songs (1973– )
45 min | Drama
A woman's quest to find her composer father, who disappeared when she was a child, leaving as a legacy only a tantalizing piece of music, a setting of the Song of Solomon.
Stars: Penelope Wilton, John McEnery, David Griffin, John Normington
38. BBC 3 (1965–1966)
60 min | Comedy
Late-night satire and revue show.
Stars: Lynda Baron, John Bird, Robert Robinson, René Sartoris
Votes: 15
40. The Pearcross Girls (1973– )
50 min | Drama
Four plays about the four daughters of a comfortable middle-class household in Hampshire.
Stars: Penelope Wilton, Marion Mathie, Anthony Nicholls, Margaret Diamond
41. Tarbuck's Luck (1970–1972)
45 min | Comedy
Stars: Jimmy Tarbuck, Clovissa Newcombe, Norman Maen, Daphne Oxenford
42. Lulu's Back in Town (1968– )
Music
Stars: Lulu, The Ladybirds, Peter Knight, Hattie Jacques
Votes: 10
43. The Nixon Line (1967–1968)
25 min | Game-Show
Stars: David Nixon, Basil Brush, Lynda Baron, Sally Smith
44.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
The Mayfly and the Frog
(1966)
75 min | Drama
Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.
Director: Robin Midgley | Stars: John Gielgud, Felicity Kendal, Isa Miranda, Jeremy Rowe
Votes: 14
45.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Uncle Vanya
(1970)
125 min | Drama
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Freddie Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Ann Bell, Roland Culver
Votes: 77
46.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Wild Duck
(1971)
Drama
A loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Derek Godfrey, Mark Dignam, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 35
47.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
O Fat White Woman
(1971)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Maureen Pryor, Peter Jeffrey, William Relton, Roger Hammond
Votes: 18
48.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
The General's Day
(1972)
59 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Alastair Sim, Annette Crosbie, Dandy Nichols, Nan Munro
Votes: 31
49.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Just Your Luck
(1972)
64 min | Comedy, Drama
A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Lesley Mackie, David Hayman, Mary Riggans, Gerry Slevin
Votes: 29
50.
Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Episode:
Mrs. Warren's Profession
(1972)
109 min | Drama
A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey
Votes: 80